I have received two MIPS Creator CI20
boards, thanks to Imagination
Technologies. It's a small MIPS32 development
board:
As you can see it comes in a nice packaging with a world-compatible
power adapter. It uses a Ingenic JZ4780
SoC with a dual core MIPS32 CPU
running at 1.2GHz with a PowerVR SGX540 GPU. The board is fitted with
1GB of RAM, 8GB of NOR flash, HDMI output, USB 2.0 ports, Ethernet +
Wi-Fi + BlueTooth, SD card slot, IR receiver, expansion headers and
more. The
schematics are available.
The Linux kernel and the U-Boot
bootloader sources are also
available.
Powering this board with a USB keyboard, a USB mouse and a HDMI display,
it boots off the internal flash on a Debian
Wheezy up to the XFCE
environment. Besides the kernel, the Wi-Fi + Bluetooth firmware, and
very few configuration changes, it runs a vanilla Debian. Unfortunately
I haven't found time to play more with it yet, but it looks already
quite promising.
The board has not been formally announced yet, so I do not know when it
will become available, nor the price, but if you are interested I'll
bring it to DebConf14. Don't hesitate
to ask me if you want to look at it or play with it.